AFTAs 2021: Best AI technology initiative—Alexandria Technology

OVERVIEW

Investment firms are bombarded with information from news reports, financial statements, earnings calls and social media. 

It is challenging for analysts to capture all the relevant information for their investments. 

THE SOLUTION

Alexandria Technology developed an AI analyst that can read and analyze investment-related documents from newswires, financial reports, and social media, at big data scale.

Using natural language processing (NLP), the tool can model language for context, resulting in accurate classification of entities, topics and sentiment. 

The AI analyst caters to quantitative analysts, quantitative portfolio managers, and data scientists at long-only equity, alternatives, and macroeconomic managers. 

The classifier analyzes documents in milliseconds and draws similar conclusions to a skilled portfolio manager. 

WHAT’S TO COME

Alexandria will expand its AI analyst to include new sources of information in global languages to capture relevant information for financial professionals. 

As more information is captured, analysts can incorporate it into their research processes. 

WHY THEY WON

It is challenging to capture all the data necessary from news reports, financial statements, earnings calls, and social media. Alexandria Technology introduced its AI analyst to help asset managers analyze large volumes of text at scale and turn it into alpha-generating signals. The AI analyst will continue expanding to new sources of information in global languages to capture relevant information for financial professionals.